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For 20,312 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. Donald Cried
    Donald Cried is an acutely insightful, exquisitely written and acted triumph for Mr. Avedisian, who understands how the past permanently clings to us.
  2. Nakom
    A strong nonprofessional cast and a use of long takes enhance the sense of immersion in a truly organic production.
  3. The Shack
    A bit more editing to remove some of the airiness would have made for a better film.
  4. Water & Power: A California Heist
    Guided by the work of a handful of burr-like journalists, this dense and disturbing documentary dives into the regulatory quagmire of California water rights with more courage than hope.
  5. Table 19
    Table 19 is so awkwardly structured and tonally off-kilter that its moments of catharsis feel wholly unearned.
  6. Catfight
    The two leads are mesmerizing, hurling themselves into their physically demented roles with ferocious commitment.
  7. Logan
    Logan is a strong argument for bringing the comic-book movie down to earth. It solidly hits its marks as it moves the franchise furniture around, and features striking special-effects scenes in which the world shudders to a near standstill.
  8. Wolves
    The actors do nice work before things derail.
  9. Before I Fall
    Before I Fall is tactful rather than maudlin, tasteful rather than lurid, soothing rather than creepy. None of that is good news.
  10. Kiki
    Kiki shows us a group of brave and beautiful souls for whom the struggle is, unfortunately, probably about to get even harder.
  11. Contemporary Color
    Over all, this movie is less “you are there” than “you had to be there.”
  12. Les Hautes Solitudes (1974)
    The film’s silence works as a kind of invitation, encouraging you to infer meaning and jump to conclusions as one image gives way to the next.
  13. Paraguay Remembered
    This quiet movie, shot in black-and-white and color, is an unhurried, beautiful, and pained work that through simple means resonates on various levels.
  14. Bitter Harvest
    Bitter Harvest feels awkward and parochial.
  15. As You Are
    Much of the movie, from its attempts to capture the confusing exhilaration of youthful experience to its predictable progressive character dynamics, is labored.
  16. Punching Henry
    Mr. Phillips’s self-deprecating humor is amusing but not funny enough to give him the edge he needs to rise up and conquer.
  17. The Girl with All the Gifts
    The Girl With All the Gifts doesn’t really venture into new territory, but it does a decent job of reminding us why zombies are so scary, and so interesting.
  18. Dying Laughing
    As one comic after another recalls triumphs, misadventures and painful lessons learned, the stories become redundant.
  19. Get Out
    Part of what makes Get Out both exciting and genuinely unsettling is how real life keeps asserting itself, scene after scene.
  20. My Life as a Zucchini
    Mr. Barras’s film, with its bigheaded, asymmetrical modeling-clay figures and off-kilter picture-book backdrops, explores a harsh situation with gentle whimsy.
  21. Rock Dog
    The title character of Rock Dog isn’t likely to end up on anyone’s Top 5 list of animated heroes, but the film does have a thoroughly enjoyable rocker in it. And an appealingly nasty wolf, too.
  22. How Heavy This Hammer
    Whatever investigation it’s attempting, the movie is leaden in its pacing — the first 15 minutes feel like an hour — and its constricted shooting style, practically all hand-held almost close-ups, is transparent in its contrivance of realism.
  23. You're Killing Me Susana
    [Roberto Sneider's] movie is erratic, jumpy (thanks to a needlessly affected editing style) and not entirely in control of its message.
  24. Keep Quiet
    Even if you are unmoved by Mr. Szegedi’s personal story (I found him somewhat sympathetic), what Keep Quiet tells us about its larger themes is upsettingly pertinent.
  25. My Name Is Emily
    It’s a sometimes rocky road cinematically, slipping from enchanting to trite, magical to indulgent with some regularity.
  26. Lovesong
    [An] exquisite, beautifully shot meditation on love clouded by fear and doubt.
  27. In Dubious Battle
    It is too flat-footed and sloppy to explore the obvious parallels between then and now, and the movie is peppered with gratuitous star cameos that distract rather than enlighten. At least it means well.
  28. From Nowhere
    Their ordeal feels cruel, unnecessary and infuriatingly real.
  29. American Fable
    It’s a nice opening for a movie that spirals into nonsense.
  30. Fist Fight
    While I can’t exactly say that the movie cheered me up, it did give me something I needed. Not catharsis or uplift but a bracing dose of profane, sloppy, reasonably well-directed hostility. We take what we can get.
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